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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1966
Page
7
State draft boards will select 10 men per birth year for September induction. The oldest eligible man with 1-A status will be called first if no other classification applies. A total of 2671 men will be furnished for the armed forces in October.
Board 116 will call ten men including Ilio Lira Jr and Curtis Raymond Brown as part of September quotas. Texas increases the September draft to 1890 from 1585 with earlier monthly figures listed. total examinations set at 0,000 and October inductions reach 2,671. The note also mentions a college football decision between Pennsylvania and Lehigh.
More than 175 Boy Scouts and Explorers attended the Quanah Parker District Swimoree held Friday and Saturday. Howard-Henson Post 269 hosted, Maurice Martin led as director, and multiple troops from Lamesa Brownfield Seagraves Denver City and Seminole placed in top standings among swim events and Explorer division.
Casebeer Bobby W. II USN son of Mr and Mrs A F Casebeer of 54 Fo 4th is on station with the U S Seventh Fleet in waters off Vietnam as a crewman of the Amphibious Transport Dock ship Vancouver The Vancouver recently completed a three month shipyard overhaul and weeks of refresher training at the Naval Shipyard Bremerton Washington
Jim Foy, local county agent, attends the Texas County Agents Association state meet in Nacogdoches this week and is expected back Thursday.
A local troop names Robert Baumgardner as Scoutmaster in a sponsorship update. The item notes organizational support and aims to bolster youth scouting activities in the community.
A lunar crater named Hell honors 18th century Hungarian astronomer Maximilian Hell. The feature remains at temperatures similar to other moon surfaces, with values around 214 degrees Fahrenheit by day and 250 degrees below zero at night.
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